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  1. Go for it. on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1

    As I see things, continuing to keep his secrets would not help anyone, while revealing them has a chance of helping those he left behind. I say, go for it.

    One document that's left for my family should something happen to me contains all my logins and passwords, as well as contact info for my most computer-able friends who will know what to do with it all. Your unfortunate situation would not have occurred had that person done something similar.

  2. Re:DECSYSTEM-2020 on Spam Is 30 Years Old · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder what one of those babies goes for nowadays. It might be a neat addition to my collection...

    ...wait, a 30-year-old spam just WORKED on me. Fucksocks!

  3. Re:... but can he do "delightful"? on Guillermo del Toro Will Direct "The Hobbit" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pan's Labyrinth had its measured doses of "delightful" in between the generous helpings of "dude, that's pretty f'd up right there." Just based on those I have high hopes for his Hobbit.

  4. Re:Branching storylines? Can we have some? on US Spies Use Custom Video Games for Training · · Score: 1

    That really is a shame. Still, IMHO, Planescape would actually be worth resurrecting an old Win98 box or partition or something solely to play it on. It's that good.

  5. Neat! on US Spies Use Custom Video Games for Training · · Score: 2, Funny

    The future of cloak and dagger involves an actual copy of Cloak and Dagger.

  6. Re:Branching storylines? Can we have some? on US Spies Use Custom Video Games for Training · · Score: 2, Informative

    Planescape: Torment. It's a PC game, but it's old enough where I believe you should be able to run it on a modern Linux box in WINE without too much trouble. If you're into games with stories you can actually affect the narrative itself in dramatic ways with your decisions, this is it.

  7. Re:Potrzebie? on Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    About 30 kilongogns per furshlugginer blintz.

  8. Re:Capacity references elude me. on Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    But stacking them like that would take far too many man-hours per foot-pound per second.

  9. Milestones on Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Funny

    They've also just celebrated receiving their half-billionth RMA hard drive.

  10. Re:Capacity references elude me. on Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    A few dozen football fields' worth.

  11. Filthy astronauts. on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 5, Funny

    They also used duct tape to fix the stereo, so they could keep driving their moon buggies through our neighborhoods at all hours of the night playing that theme from "2001" real loud.

  12. oblig on Walter Bender Resigns From OLPC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did his final words as he left have anything to do with biting his shiny metal ass?

  13. obDrWho on The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts · · Score: 1

    What this will eventually mean is every five years or so, you can be played by a new actor with an updated hairstyle.

  14. Re:Opportunities.... on The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are what you eat when you eat what you are.

  15. Seriously.. on NASA Wants its MMO Created for Free · · Score: 1

    I love you so much right now.

  16. Bueller? on Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity · · Score: 1

    Bueller?

    Bueller?

  17. Re:Torchwood did it (and did it, and did it..) on PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    If scientists are swiping there ideas Ugh, my first there/their typo in years and years. Happy Monday morning, brain. Have some coffee.
  18. Torchwood did it (and did it, and did it..) on PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat · · Score: 4, Funny

    If scientists are swiping there ideas from Torchwood episodes nowadays, they'd better be prepared to start shagging each other and coming back from the dead on a regular basis as well.

  19. Will it run VR5 on a Gibson in an InGen jeep? on A Peek at AT&T's New Browser, Pogo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Judging by the screenshots, it looks like some AT&T execs happened to catch a marathon of those 1990s cyber-thrillers which featured portrayals of that mysterious new "Internet" thing that was starting to get noticed, and decided the real Internet should start looking like those Hollywood mockups.

  20. Yeah, but.. on US Army Furthers Development of Robotic Suits · · Score: 1
  21. Groan. on Computers Emulate Neanderthal Speech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me guess.. the simulator immediately tried to sell people car insurance.

  22. Re:It's Inevitable on Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq · · Score: 1

    No, that's my comment. I know I wrote it, because I was there when it happened.
    Here's the parent comment I was responding to.

  23. Re:It's Inevitable on Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    #1) I was responding to the scenario described in my parent comment, not the article. Read that AGAIN or don't.
    #2) I resent the implication that I'm familiar with standard RC toys. I only have a passing acquaintance with one or two, but while I suppose they're okay I still wouldn't let my daughter marry one.

  24. Re:It's Inevitable on Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq · · Score: 1

    I'm fully aware of TFA. I was responding to the scenario my parent poster described.

  25. Re:It's Inevitable on Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know nothing about these things or guns in general so maybe I'm off base, but if the bit that makes it swivel engages without being told, what on Earth makes you so confident that the bit that makes it shoot will not engage without it being told?